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Remote teams
fromForbes
3 days agoLayoffs Are A Leadership Test For Executives
Effective leadership during layoffs is crucial for maintaining trust and organizational performance.
Careers
fromSlate Magazine
4 days agoI Had the Dream Job Everyone Wanted. Then My Peers and I Lost It All.
Mass layoffs in tech have left many experienced professionals feeling humiliated and uncertain about their future job prospects.
Higher education
fromFortune
21 minutes agoWith entry-level jobs vanishing, Gen Z grads are ditching corporate America-piecing together careers with entrepreneurship, gig work and freelancing | Fortune
Gen Z graduates are increasingly pursuing unconventional employment paths due to a shrinking number of entry-level jobs in the AI age.
#entrepreneurship
Bootstrapping
fromSilicon Canals
23 hours agoPeople who start businesses in their 50s and 60s have an advantage no 25-year-old can replicate - they've already failed inside someone else's company on someone else's dime, and every mistake they watched a boss make is a mistake they'll never repeat, and that accumulated library of other people's errors is worth more than any startup capital because it buys something money can't - Silicon Canals
Experience and lessons learned over decades provide a significant advantage in entrepreneurship compared to starting young.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoHow to find a career you love for gen Z and everyone else: You don't want your life's compass to be dread'
Students at Columbia, despite their political differences, expressed a united anxiety over how to start finding their life's work in a chaotic environment. This resonated deeply with me.
Left-wing politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
3 hours agoInside the xAI exodus: Meet the dozens of people who have left Elon Musk's AI company
xAI is experiencing significant employee turnover, with all cofounders except Elon Musk having left amid ongoing organizational changes and competition in the AI sector.
fromSilicon Canals
23 hours agoI'm 66 and I sold the business I built over two decades for more money than I ever thought I'd see - and I spent the first week staring at my bank account trying to figure out why I didn't feel anything, and I finally understood that the money was never the point, the building was the point, and once it was gone I had to meet the version of myself who wasn't building something anymore - Silicon Canals
The money was supposed to feel like something. You work your whole life thinking about the payoff. The day you can finally relax. The moment you don't have to worry about making payroll or whether that big invoice will come through.
Retirement
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoPsychology says the reason so many successful people quietly burn out in their 50s isn't overwork - it's that they spent three decades performing a version of themselves that the job required, and somewhere along the way they stopped being able to locate the original person underneath, and the burnout isn't about energy, it's about grief for a self they outsourced - Silicon Canals
Identity erosion in high-performing professionals often manifests as a grief response to losing one's original self to job demands.
fromIndependent
1 week agoModern Morals: My husband has just been let go from his fourth job in five years - I'm running out of patience. What can I do?
My husband has just been let go from his fourth job in five years. The first time it happened was during Covid when he was laid off, but it seemed to start a pattern.
Careers
Higher education
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoI moved 13 times over 15 years to advance my career. I would never wish this on anyone.
Frequent relocations for academic career advancement create emotional exhaustion and disconnection despite professional success, ultimately revealing the psychological cost of mobility.
Careers
fromBusiness Insider
1 month agoAvoid these 3 mistakes after a layoff, career coach says
After a layoff, avoid posting negative content on LinkedIn and venting to former colleagues; instead, wait to reframe the experience positively and maintain professional relationships for future job opportunities.
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